Aristotle Quotes About Middle Class

• The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Class, Perfect

• When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

  Aristotle

  Numbers, Government, Class

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Politics”, p.112, Aeterna Press

• The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

  Aristotle

  Class, Community, Political

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

• A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

  Aristotle

  Class, Government, Democracy

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

• Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government.

  Aristotle

  Fall, Government, Class

  Aristotle (1943). “On man in the universe: Metaphysics, Parts of animals, Ethics, Politics, Poetics”

• No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.

  Aristotle

  Class, States, Middle

  Marcus Aurelius, Plato, Aristotle (2012). “The Modern Library Collection of Greek and Roman Philosophy 3-Book Bundle: Meditations; Selected Dialogues of Plato; The Basic Works of Aristotle”, p.3167, Modern Library

• The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.

  Aristotle

  Class, Perfect, Community

  Aristotle (1919). “A treatise on government: translated from the Greek of Aristotle”

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